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equ7.lity," were alWays ready to .murmur against their superiors; or, lastly, that he wished. to se cure the affeaion of his troops, by authorising among • them debauchery., rapine, and excess of every kind': WllateVer it was;- there is not a town, not a village, inthat dogs not recollea with Italy, horror the march, or the halt of the terrible divi .sions of MAssENA, of AUGEREAU, Of BERNADOTTE', and of LANNES ! I can affirm, on -my perional knowledge, that they were held in such execration, that many of the French soldiers. .thernseives used to call them hordes.of " thieves and murderers." I have seen and heard several of those more 'orderly Soldiers, when they marched into a place before these divisioni, take the pains to warn,the inhabitants to barricade their.shopS and houses the instant they perceived them' approaching f . Were not these in , famous these detestable 'divisions . part of . BUON A •;. PARTE'S ariAy ? and could' the man who permitted this want of discipline, and these robberies and as sassinations—could that man, I say, lay claim to the praise of causing property to he Tespeliecl ? LT° be Antinued,] MAILS. Duz—x Gottenburgh, 3 Dublin, 3 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'ILOCK. • 67 I Red. Ann. 66H I Omnium dis. Consols . T SUN. 231 LEM QULS DICIAI r4t,send AUD/LAT ? L 0 ND 0 N, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1808. This morning the Court of Inquiry: assembled in the Hall at Chelsea Hospital, the same place, and in the same form, as on the trial of General WHITE LOCKE, except that the Members of the Court are less in number. Ten o'clock was the time appointed for opening the Court. About elevetk o'clock General Sir DAVID DUN DAS, observing to the Judge-Advocate that all the Members were present, be requested them to take their places, which they did in the following order : Sir D. DUNDAS, President. Earl Moia A, PETER CRAIG, Lord HEATHFIELD, Earl PEMBROKE, Sir Ft. I , IL:CENT, 0. The 'Members were not sworn, nor was there any other form in opening the Court than we have described. A Copy of .the Armistice was first read to the Court in French ; next was read a Copy of the Convention of Cintra, both professing to be copies from the London Gazette ; and, lastly, was read the Warrant, by the authority of which the Court as.; sembled. Earl MOIRA now said something to the Presi dent, which we could not hear; but, after g few minutes consultation the Coutt was orLlcred to be cleared at half past eleven, which it was accordingly. • • The Coutt was but thinly z attended below the Bar,. The Duke of CUMBERL4ND Was present. The Court rernainee, in. piivate consultation till halt-vast one o'cleck; and then adjourned till half past eleven on Thuisday JUST before our Paper was put to Press, we re ct•ived French Papers to the, 12th insr. The follow ing are their contents : PARIS, Nov. B.—His Majesty the Emperor and King arrived at Bayonne the 3d of this Month.— (MJniteur, Nov. 9.) Sr. PETERSRURGII, OCT.: s.—His Majesty the Emperor is expeled here in fifteen days. Two battOons of the guards, and much artillery, left this 'place op Sunday last, for Finland. On the same day there was a general parade, in presence of Count URAKCiiIEF, Minister of War, and of the Military Governor, 'Prince LABANOFF RASTOUSKY: 411 the guards and other regiments which formed' the Garrison assistarat it. Yesterday another re. giment set outt on the same destination: The postage of foreign letters has received a great augmentation : letters' going to Harnburgh, or com ing frOm that town, which formerly paid 1 'ruble 13 kopecks, are henceforth to be charged I ruble 64 kopecks. M. PA.scilKow, named Consul from Russia td the United States, has already set out from some part in the Continent, from which he will embark for the United States. The Councillor Prince BIEL , OSiLSKY has been named Grand Cup-bearer, on con dition that his predecessor, Count RomANzow, shall continue to fulfil the functions of that charge. The Counsellor of State, REYJIN, has been named Civil Goveraor of Livonia. .A gant of lands has been made tO M. HABLITZ 4 DireCtor. of the D.epartment of Forests;; formerly Civil Governor of Finlanc% to the Counst-lior of State Emrd, and some other per sons in place.•,--(Moniteur, Nov. 5.) ST. PET3ESBIJRGH, OCT. 3.—We have gained great vittories in. Finland, by land as well as by sea ; almost the whole Government of WaSa has been roconquered in 20 days, and the Swedish army of General K.LitiGsron, composed of 16,0po'rnen, be- sides the armed peasantry, has been reduced to 000 men. The following 'is an extra& of a report, which has lust been publisii.l on this subject; in a stipple- ment. to the Court Gazette :—The offensive -ope rations of our army have been crowded with the most -complete - success - : - the - enemy - has corn pletely failed in all the attempts which he rriade' to penetrate Pinto the heart of ..the country, and to disembark., He has been every wher6 beaten, and driven, !lock to Gamin Carleby, where the Russian Head-quarters was established on the 23d Sep= ternber. . It was to the Corps ,of .Lieutenant-Gen. Count K s AMINSKOY that the' staccess.is principally owing.-- This Corps wassdivided into'rheee bodies; the first was commanded by Colonel - ULASTON ; the second by Major-General KeiSATSCHAN.S. and 'the (bird, ;which was the principal, and by which the other di . visions 'Were dire&ed, was. commanded by Ilie'Major- Gens. DEmsnow UscitAxovv, and JANKOWITSCH Colonel KULNOW commanded the advanced guard.. The columns moved on the ioth of Sept. The enemy was at,Lilkiro, but retired 'at the approach of • - our troops, who, in spite of all his intrenehments, quickly marched upon Wasa. Major-General DE MEDOW and Colonel KULNOW chasied the Enemy On the 12th September from the defiles of Wasa, and pursued them with the bayonet. In the evening, at seven o'clock, the town of Wasa was taken posses sion of, without the least resistance; by. Lieutenan t RAJE:NSKI and by Major-Gneral,JANKo waseti. They found at Wasa 6000 sacks of meal., On the 13th they ,continued to phrsue the enemy, who retreated towards Orawals. The position of the Swedes was very strong; their army, comprising the troops which had just disembarked at Christianstadt, under the command ofGeneral VEo &SACK, was com posed of four regiments of the line, six squadrons of cavalry, ,seven Finnish regiments, besides the .dra goons olNylau, and SO pieces of artillery., The battle commenced at seven o'clock in the morning, and lasted till eleven o'clock. It was ex tremely bloody: The'Swedes fonght.with the most determined bravery. Till noon the battle was'clread ful, at last the enemy was beaten and pursued a league towards Ora,wais. Odr troops were obliged to halt, the enemy having burnt all the bridges. Our loss consisted in 4'oo killed, and 200 wounded. Among the killed are two Captains, and among the wounded the Major BaronOceuTcri HtcmAN. The loss of the enemy is enormous : he has had above s?,000 men killed and wounded. )Are have taken .f4uo privates and" 30 Officers pri soners.' The Swedish Generals VEGESACK, ADDS_ WREETS, and NEUANDEL : the Colonels BRENG snord and PLATEN, and Lieut.-Colonel STINNIEN i were wounded. On the 13th of September Col. <.ULNOW occupied New, Carleby. On the 17th General Prince BAGRATION attacked a Swedish corps commanded by Lieut.-General LINTENHAUSEN. This corps sheaved a di position to advance upon Wiwi). The combat took place mar the chut - ch of Lokulax, and lasted from five o'clock in the morning till ttvo in the afternoon. After an obstinate resistance, the Swedes were driven back, forty-two of them made prisoners. On thesathe day, the Rt_l43iiill Rear-AjElliral.MA ESDJ E DON attacked with his flotilla 52 of the,enetuy's Ships, near the Island of Pulwa, and made them give way after an' action of four hours. Three of the enemy's Ships were blown up, and four sunk. Our loss consists of too men. Some of our Sloops have been damaged. On the 2 Ist September our troops entered Gamla Carlby. In consequence of the occupation of that place, the left wing of our army has completely attained the end which it wished to accomplish. A report was this morning circulated, that intelli gence.has been received of an action having taken place in Spain, in which the Spaniards suffered very considerably. We do not think the report entitled to any credit. There are. no arrivals trom. Spain, 'and the French'Papers, which are of a very•recent date, are silent upon, the subjeet. Yesterday Dutch and Ilawburgh Papers reached Town, the former to the .Bth and the latter to the 3d instant. They are chiefly important, as they contraciia the rumour which was prevalent a few days ago, that Austria had declared War against France. It is said, that in consequence of an ar• rangernent between France and Denmark, the whole Army of the latter is to be marched into Spain, and that 40,000 French are. to be quartered in the Island of Zealand. It is almost an absurdity to talk of an arrangement between France and Denmark. The King of Denmark has, by his own unfortunate po icy, made himself as much the vassal of BUONA PARTE, as the persons are who are called King 4 of Holland and Westphalia. If, therefore, BUONA_ PAIiTE chuses to order the Danish- Army into Spain, and should also desire his Danish .111:ijesty to ac company it, the order, we have no doubt, wnt..ld be obeyed. We are happy to find that the most perfeft mony subsists between the Emperor of Austria and his Hungarian subjects. Tile,Address of the Stites to the 4miieror :on the 4th Alit.- and his Answer, which these Pipers we !laid before our Readers several days ago. "• THE County of Stafford, Taccording to bur predic tion last week, 'has- manifested a decided opposition to the plan of carrying insult to the Throne, by Pe- 7 , titions for what His MAJESTY has solemnly granted. A Meeting took place on 'Friday last in the front of the Shire-ball, Stafford. T e .Sheriff WIL• T LIAM CARY, Esq: presided, and in a brief, but per- . spicuons manner, stated the purPose of the. Meeting. It appeared that the very ,persOnS who had signed the requisition for this Meeting; thought proper to recede, and to protest against . on _the alleged ground of informality in the proceedings : but it is Lair to infer, that, having felt the pulSe of the Coun ty, the Freeholders were found to be charaacrized by too much regard to justice to pre-judge - a matter which is to be investigated before a competent banal, composed_ of . men of undoubted knowledge -.and unimpeachable integrity ; and that the Free holders had also too much loyalty and rvspeCt for a venerable and beloved Sovereign, to intrude upon with any measure that would indicate a. distrust of his gracious protnise.;„l,arl TALEOW, in • a firm . and manly style; obserVettlhat i he' Meeting; though called for a purpose Tp — pliSite 'to the sentiments of alt present, ought not to.separate witliout - an ekpiession of its genuine feelings and opinions ; he - therefore. proposed two Resolutions, — slating, in substance, that. a Petition w - a s i . - unnecessary and inexpedient, and acknOWledging His:MAJESTY'S paternal good ; , ness in ordering the Inquiry in question, and relying upon his gracious: word. that it would: be full and comprehensive. These Resolutions were ottani mously carried.' Lord G. L. GOWER, the Hon. Mr. SHIRLEY, Mr.DYOTT, and Colonel Ei'LioT;all spoke warmly on the same side. The last Gentlecuan point edly observed, that if.. a Petition. had been resolved. On, the County would have been involved in a dilemma, implying, that it entirely disbelieved his MAJESTY, or proposing an at of supererogation. The thanks of the Meeting were unanimously given to the High Sheriff for his candour. and impar tiality, and to Earl TALBOT, for his manly, clear, explicit, and constitutional conduct. The Meeting was very numerous, and attended by moSt of the chief persons in the County. Thus' has Staffordshire evinced a spirit of loyalty, candour, justice, and pa triotism, that ought to operate as an example to the whole nation. ..On Saturday a Council was held. at the Foreign Off i ce, all the Cabinet Ministers in town .were pre-- sent. They sat from half after two till four o'clock. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses So- PHIA, AUGUSTA, and AmELIA, accompanied by Lady CAROLINE WALDEGRAVE, Major PRIcE, and DESBROW, went to St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon, preached by the Rev. Mr. CRAM PIGNEY, from Ist Thessalonians, chap. v. verse 17 —afterwards returned to-the Palace. Sir J..9.,kuntAßEz arrived in town on Saturday from the. B_►hic. Yesterday he had an interview with Lord MULGEAVE at tile Admiralty. A ,vacancy has occurred •in the representation of Hampshire, in consequence of the death of Sir HENRY MILDMAY. " • By advices from Rprne, the archives and papers of the Cardinal Secretary of State have been seized by the French Commandant, and the Pope has issued another protest on the occasion. By the intended changes in Switzerland, the dif ferent Cantons are to receive one form of Govern ment, at the head of which, we understand, Bait- THl't is to be placed. . • . . Several French refraaory conscripts and deserters have been arrested in .Holland, and. sent in chains to France. An .amnesty was otfered to such as should join their,respeaive corps before the Ist of Noveadier thoSe wlib'negleaed to do so, have been sought after with . a degree of adtivity well calculated to deter others from any effort to . escipe: Not only in Holland, but in Westphalia, Bavaria, and through out the Federative States,i the most rigid search has taken place; and it is stated that during the four first days of the present month, upwards of eleven hundred refra6tory conscript's - had been dragged in chains to Mentz.. Letters from Holland state, that a system of com mercial espionnage was established, which would tend more to check importations from England than the utmost rigour of the Imperial and Royal li.crees. Forty per cent. is allowed to every informer, upon such goods as he is able to prove are the manufadure of England ; so that every man is a sort of spy upon his neighbour. A general search was lately made on: board all vessels suspeded to have come from Eng. land. One was.seize4l in consequence of a British licence having been found in the pOcket of the ship's cook. There , have been great fluduations in the prices of various articles of merchaudize in Holland. Raw coffee is at 4s. 6d. per lb. , The price of sugar extremely high, and indigo low. The best bark has fallen/from Go to 2 . 5 guilders per lb. It is stated in a letter from Charante, under date of the ,2d instant, that several Americans had been' seized by the French Government, in consequence of some of the crews, w h o h a d b een pun i s h e d bk imprisonment for disorderly condud, having im peached their Captains, and discovered that the ships had come last from England. Besides these, the Masters of which had been informed against, two others were seized, but the crews making no dis co%ery, they were released. All the vessels of other nations which had cargoes on board were un ,loading, as there was not the least prospect of any permission being allowed them to depart. NAVAL NEWS. PLYaioUTM, Nov. 12.—Arrived the Implacable , of 74 guns, Capt..T. B. MARTIN, from the B. lac, last from Portsmouth, and the Sir Charles Coltc 3l , JOHNS, from Corunna. Sailed the Donegal, - of Eio guns, to join the C1 1 4!. 1 7 nel Fleet, and Alcmene Frigate for Spain. Sailed the Contest Gun - -bilg, ll eazle . Schooner, and Fervent Gun-brig, - for the coast of France, and Ferret hired Lugger,with dispatches, for-St, Anticre.- PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Arrived yestercl•V the 'Elbe, of 20 guns, and the — Indignant Gun,VossPfr. Lieut. JONES, from the Downs. This , day arrived the -Defender, from a cruize-0 liarmony;Pu R V is, from Newcastle;Agerii7o,-,-- --- Y from Stockholm; Lady,Bruce, Hosttus, and Hope). WALkER, from Sunderland. - • Sailed .yesterday, the Brilliant. Frigate, Captain SMYTIL; with a Convoy fur Plymouth ;. Capt. DOD ; La Fleche , Capt. BucHA►,r-At. and the Linnet ,• Lieut. TRACY, on a cruiie... This day, the Pido,.:TAYLEU .P.ORDY ; Isabella; Itozsdr.sri i Isabella, ; Mary, ..110.BAoN ; Juno, BENsor; . Ceres, PALL'S, for Sunderland Hop 2, NEAT4Zitt . HEAD, for London. Also, his _Majesty's Ship Furious, fur the Down* with a Convoy of about 20 salt of merchant- ships- ISLA27D6)F SCILLY, Nov. 4.-Came"iii the Brig Neutrality, J. rDONALD Master, from Malaga' bound to London, with fruit, all well, but put unde r the resttaint of .quarantine : also 12 Sail of Trans' ports . retprnek.from conveying TI-00p9". Rochelle and places adjacent; by them we learn , that the plunder is immense carried ad. by the . •• French,_befote....the. ur_dr for inspe4tkinartiva-- 114 that among the otherVailuables;"Were several bale/ of indigo. Fot this week-past the wind having blown a fieol gale from the Eastward, 'with very Hale variatid - r i ' We have now in this Port nearly 200 sail; , after/ coasting Vessels; wind-bound. FAiTmourti, Nov: 9.—A Packet is hourly a" peed to take the Mail'of the 9d inst. tor America' SHEERNESS, Nov, 13.—Sailed the rangarg6 for the Downs ; the Ong.r, with a convoy for KC, ligoland . ; and the Ringdove for Yarmouth ; his M' jesty's Ship Agincourt for the Do% Ds. Came down. the River his. Majesty's Brig Lyra' Went out of harbour, and arichoied at the N° lel the bsntinel Gun-brig. ed Last Thursday night a light Collier was wre cl ‘ on the Mouse Sand ; the. crew saved theroselv e6- theiLongnboat, and-arrived safe at Sheerness. - •• EDIEDINBURGH, NOV. 10.-:-011 Monday arrive—At at Leith the Danish Privateer Norway Schuyt, pie rce for 14 guns; and mounting to and 4 swivels, Pr : i° to his Majesty's Ship Tartar, Capt. BAKER, tak en off the Coast of Norway; out two days fromeh riti3ire Sand, and had made no capture. She is quite a ne w Vessel, had been only out once before, ' wh en 41'1 carried away her mast, and was; forced to return the, Same day. She is one of six of the same ,descrir tion, said to be built at Christiansand, by a carpent er from Dundee, a residenter there, exactly after t i model of our smacks. The Privateer threw th ree her guns over board during the chase. . [A Letter from Capt. BAKER, inserted in . the Gazette , tions this Capture.] ' • Sh'P • DEAL, Nov. 13.—Sailed His MajestY S ,. n ut- Princess Caroline for Yarmouth, an d sevdra'. ward-bound Vessels to the Westward. .Ship Came down froth . Sheerness His Cherope and Exertion Gun-brirf. ' Arrived His Majesty's Brigs Flamer, Kamer, 'Bold, Cracker, from a cruizo. Colonel BURN, of the Chatham Division of - 11° I,t Marines, is appointed to command the Divisi ( " *Woolwich, vice FLETCHER ; Colonel LEvvis ' s succeed Colonel BERN, at Chatham ; Major C.°41.); BELL' is promoted to be 'Lieutenant-Colonel of for Portsmouth Division, vice L EWIS ; Capt. Ft 111 , 1 ; - jOr is promoted . to be Major of "the Division, vic e j 7 a Boys, removed to Chatham. vi i g ate, ~t ill c n arry 54, ts t 4i l .0 1 , e r B w i a u s . c;phalus, beautiful b b o u t i? Gov ernment, launched rattreodrn building-yard, at St. Peter's Quay, about two L" e it below Newcastle Bridge. This Vessel is the l a* ever built so high up the Tyne. Lietr The Lavinia, Lord WM. STUART, takes ou t , t y• tenant-General Sir JOHN CRADccK, .K.B• L liot mander-in-Chief in Portugal, to Lisbon ; Vi sc r. ° oll l' MATEROSA, Don DIEGO DE LA VEGA, and 5 11 e ,„, missary-General MURRAY, and suites, to SP 3I " 'co- I likewise takes a million and a half of dollars t b a, runna, and merchants' money to Oporto, Lrs and Cadiz. par t' Six waggon loads of dollars, escorted hY a 'awl of soldiers, on Friday arrived at Portsmou th will be speedily shipped for Spain. • Ija The winter has set in much earlier tha n tis ' 33 ( t he the North of the Continent. Ttl accounts r° rts 7th from Gottenburgh state, that the Ituss ian would probably be shut by the ice at th at tii fork' Saturday, at the Htt!ton-garden-Oilice,- 4 / lill o e x , resident in Clerkenwell-close, un d er went °, or wito animation,o charged by twQ }rom; ‘4rornt:r) and tune-telling. Tue charge was fully p 11)"` the prisoner, who has sacctssfully pra,:;tised ,t I or art tor eight years, though she can neithe r write, was committed for tri4l. ,ie.